The government has pledged to halve teenage pregnancy rates by 2010 and is expecting to reduce by 2,000 the number of girls who become pregnant this year. And yet we are seeing attacks on decent quality sex education in schools and wholesale closures of NHS run family planning centres not to mention attacks on a woman's right to choose. The New Labour government should stop pandering to tabloid hysteria and religious fundamentalists who want to see sex education replaced by abstinance pledges. We've seen what happens in the US when the government panders to this kind of rhetoric, a rise in teenage pregnancy and in STI's. Thats why the YCL has launched a campaign to ensure that all young people in Britain recieve a decent quality sex education!